Bryn > Bryn's Quotes

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything... what a waste.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“I seem to be always searching for something to lose myself in completely... It’s like we say in seminary — ‘beyond measure.”
― Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard